Drinking this year’s champagne might give you a heftier headache as France’s record heatwaves are forcing some producers to up the alcohol levels, industry officials said Wednesday. French authorities have allowed champagne houses to make their bubbly with alcohol content of up to 15 percent, a historic first for a wine usually limited to 13 […]
Read MoreUK air travellers faced more misery Wednesday with nearly 300 flights scrapped across the country, as Britain’s air traffic control service scrambled to recover from a technical glitch which it ruled out as a cyberattack. After 1,746 flights were cancelled on the first day of the outage on Tuesday another 291 were axed on Wednesday […]
Read MoreSalama Saeed and her son fled for their lives when shelling and gunfire from Yemen’s Houthi rebels engulfed their village, forcing her to leave other children behind. They are among thousands of people driven from their homes since the Iran-backed rebels launched a broad offensive in areas near the Red Sea last week, their biggest […]
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Iran said it attacked more than a dozen vessels trying to pass through the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday, as fresh fighting with the United States drove oil prices above $100 per barrel. The attacks came with the six-month war between the United States and Iran deadlocked, as Tehran chokes off the strategic Strait of […]
Read MoreMore than 300 works by Japanese contemporary artist Yayoi Kusama go on display in Amsterdam from Friday, an exhibit that has become a tribute to the “polka dot queen” who died last month. The exhibition at Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum features dozens of ceramics, etchings, and drawings from Kusama, one of the world’s best-known artists, as […]
Read MoreFifty years after Barbara Kopple first tackled the topic of labour rights, workers in the United States are still struggling to get their due, the filmmaker said as her latest film premiered at the Venice Film Festival.”Union Town,” which debuts Wednesday at the festival, is the third in a trilogy about worker struggles by the […]
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Google will invest at least 13 billion euros in data centres and other digital infrastructure to power its AI ambitions in Finland, in what the US tech giant called Wednesday its biggest single investment in Europe. The $15 billion plan also calls for clean energy projects over the next two years, which Google said was […]
Read MoreDie Umstellung der Wärmeversorgung von fossilen auf erneuerbare Energien erfordert hohe Investitionen – laut einer Untersuchung ist sie mit einem Gesamtbedarf von 86 Milliarden Euro pro Jahr aber “volkswirtschaftlich leistbar”. Rund die Hälfte davon falle für Instandhaltung ohnehin an, erklärte am Mittwoch das Öko-Institut, das die Studie im Auftrag der Stiftung Klimaneutralität erstellte. Haushalte mit […]
Read MoreBei einem der größten Wolfsangriffe der jüngeren Zeit sind in den französischen Voralpen mehr als 60 Schafe getötet worden. Etwa 20 weitere Tiere seien verschwunden, berichteten lokale Medien am Dienstag. “Das ist einer der schlimmsten Angriffe von Wölfen unter freiem Himmel in Frankreich”, sagte der Bürgermeister des ostfranzösischen Ortes Oriol, Jean-Jacques Dallon, im Sender ici. […]
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